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Salvador Dalí and Hans Arp
The Birth of Memory 16 February – 16 August 2020
Lobster Telephone | Salvador Dalí | 1938 | West Dean College of Arts and Conservation
© Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Press conference: Friday, 14 February 2020, 11 a.m.
Opening: Sunday, 16 February 2020, 11 a.m.
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Press information »Salvador Dalí and Hans Arp. The Birth of Memory« 3
Partners and Sponsors of the Exhibition 7
General Information 8
Press Photos 9
Exhibition Overview 2020/2021 14
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Rolandseck, 16 February 2020
Press Information
Exhibition »Salvador Dalí and Hans Arp. The Birth of Memory« 16 February – 16 August 2020
»Let’s leave Picasso aside. We will have to learn to get along better with Arp.«
Salvador Dalí
»Some nine decades later, the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck gladly complies with
Salvador Dalí’s request. In a grand »rendezvous des amis« in 2020, we welcome
Salvador Dalí, an outstandingly illustrious guest, and present a wide range of his
works in dialogue with the works of our museum’s patron, Hans Arp. Through our
exhibition the numerous connections between these two protagonists of modernity for
the first time become comprehensible and tangible in a concentrated form.« This is
how the museum’s director Dr. Oliver Kornhoff assesses the exhibition.
Malu Dreyer, Minister-President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, comments on this
major project: »I am very proud of the superb implementation of the exhibition’s concept.
The team of the Arp Museum has succeeded in gathering first-rate loans from all over
Europe, the USA and Japan. Moreover, the project is supported by renowned partners and
sponsors. I am particularly pleased about two creative co-operations within Rhineland-
Palatinate that is with the University of Mainz and the Villa Musica.«
A Surrealist Rendezvous: Hans Arp and Salvador Dalí
On the upper floor of the New Building, the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck shows first-
rate and international loans of works by the two artists Salvador Dalí and Hans Arp. In a
dialogical presentation, distinctive groups of works on the subjects of »Object«,
»Moustache«, »Body«, »Genius«, »Shape«, »Bureau surréaliste« and »Language“ are
formed. They expose the likeness of Dalí’s and Arp’s language of forms. The curatorial
concept simultaneously points out the two artistic personalities, their role in Surrealism and
the overlapping of their biographies.
Hans Arp and Salvador Dalí's paths crossed in Paris in 1929, when Dalí was accepted into
the circle of Surrealists. By this time Arp was already an established member of the
surrealist movement around André Breton. Hans Arp, who had previously experimented with
various techniques of chance and intuition, being one of the leading creative minds of
Dadaism, readily related to the ideas of Surrealism. His texts and works are printed in the
most important publications of Surrealism and Arp’s reliefs are celebrated for their »object-
language« novelty. Dalí was therefore familiar with the work of Hans Arp even before 1929
and was essentially influenced by this pioneer of abstract art. Dalí’s paintings, such as the
»Spectral Cow« in 1928, testify this, revealing obvious references to the biomorphic
organic structures of Hans Arp's reliefs.
In the exhibition, spectacular works by Salvador Dalí, such as »Dream Caused by the
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Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second before Awakening« (1944) or »The
Metamorphosis of Narcissus« (1937), are juxtaposed with surrealistic wood reliefs by Hans
Arp, such as »Leaf of a Woman« (1935) or bronzes such as »Little Sphinx« (1942), which
so far have been rarely shown. The meeting of the exhibited works illustrates how much
Dalí’s works from around 1928 are characterized by abstract-organic shapes that sprawl,
grow and alter in a similar way as is typical of Hans Arp’s art. The softly flowing and
organic structures of Arpʼs sculptures seem to spring from a painting by Dalí and vice
versa. Arp’s poetry also constitutes another intersection with some of Dalí’s works. Here,
numerous correspondences between their unconscious imaginary worlds and enigmatic
visions become clearly visible. This surrealistic vocabulary can be reconstructed in Dalí’s
pictorial works and in Arp's written poetry, right up to his late works.
As is typical of surrealism, we come upon dreamlike and inexplicable images and
sequences in both Dalí’s and Arp’s works: watches are melting or have moustaches, bodies
have drawers and telephone receivers become lobsters. Inspired by the pavilion »Dream of
Venus« – which Dalí designed for the 1939 world exposition in New York – the Kabinett
offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in one of the first environments in art history
and thus also in the surreal world of Salvador Dalí. The true atmosphere is created
above all by a recording of the original sound from this very pavilion, which was staged
with elaborate settings and bizarrely dressed actors. For the very first time since then, the
seductive voice of »Venus« and the choir of her admirers can now be heard again.
Despite the many parallels in the works of the two artists, they nevertheless pursue their
own paths within surrealism. Hence, Salvador Dalí with his academic brushstroke is one of
the most important representatives of verist surrealism, while Hans Arp with his organic use
of forms stands for abstract surrealism.
Salvador Dalí and Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th anniversary
Like Ludwig van Beethoven, Salvador Dalí is one of the most radical artists of his time
– eccentric, ingenious, always reinventing himself. Thus, numerous references to Ludwig van
Beethoven testify Dalí’s fascination with the musical genius and cultural significance of
this other seminal artist. Throughout his life, Dalí could not forget one visual impression from
his youth. The head of Ludwig van Beethoven appeared to him as a thundercloud, based
on which he created the ink drawing »Beethoven’s Cranium« (1939-41) in 1940, which was
intended as an illustration for the first edition of his autobiography »The Secret Life of
Salvador Dalí« (1942).
So it is only fitting, on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, to use this exhibition as
a stage for the obvious connection between these two artistic visionaries. On this
special occasion, the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck is honoured to be the first museum
to have the work »Beethoven’s Head« (1973) on loan from the Fundació Gala-Salvador
Dalí. This expressive work was made using a real octopus and its own ink. Never before
has this extraordinary portrait left its place, which Dalí has chosen for it – now it may
enchant the public at Rolandseck until the finale of the Beethovenfest on 22 March 2020.
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Malte Boecker, artistic director of the Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH and sponsor of the
project, comments: »I am looking forward to this great exhibition, especially because
Salvador Dalí’s Beethoven portrait is presented outside of Spain for the first time. Dalí’s
intensive engagement with Beethoven is largely unknown. In this respect, the exhibition
acknowledges the motto of the anniversary year ‘Rediscovering Beethoven’.«
Musically, the co-operation between the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck and the
Villa Musica will revive the legacy of the seminal artists Beethoven and Dalí in a
special concert series. In addition to well-known compositions by Beethoven, new
compositions by the Spanish musician Pedro Halffter will also be performed. His great uncle
Ernesto Halffter was a close friend of Dalí.
Dalí: A Multimedia Corporate Design
Like no other, Dalí has managed not only to achieve fame through his unique painting, but
also to become a star by being the epitome of the eccentric artist. He brings down the
border between high and pop culture, between art and everyday life, reaching a wide
audience. The part of the exhibition in the historic railway station shows this ingenious
self-marketing in all its facets: Dalí as a myth, a brand and a multimedia artist.
The desire to dissolve the boundaries of his art, which was to lead to a new, holistic
experience of art, brought Salvador Dalí into the world of film. In the course of his creative
work, he continually developed concepts for film projects, although merely a handful was
realised. Four of these can be seen in the exhibition: the two ground-breaking and innovative
surreal masterpieces »An Andalusian Dog« (1929) and »The Golden Age« (1930) – both
created in collaboration with Luis Buñuel. In addition, the dream sequence from Hitchcock’s
»Spellbound« (1945), designed by Dalí, and the Disney collaboration »Destino«
(1945/2003).
A special highlight is the 360° film »Dreams of Dalí« – originally created for the Dalí
Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida). Here, visitors to the exhibition can delve into the
dreamlike illusions of the surreal master by wearing VR glasses. At the same time, this
part of the exhibition in the train station offers intimate insights into the world of Salvador Dalí
and his iconic moustache with photographs by the famous portrait and fashion
photographer Philippe Halsman.
Today Dalí can be viewed as a creative all-round talent. His artistic genius goes far beyond
his paintings and his cinematic work and also comprises product design – objects such as
ashtrays, ties or furniture.
As a master of self-dramatization, he himself became a work of art and even a brand that
over time took a life of its own and is now known worldwide. His world-famous moustache
still adorns numerous magazine covers and his works are disseminated even on stamps.
Salvador Dalí’s enthusiasm for new technologies will be paid tribute to in the exhibition with
an augmented reality application. The Department of Media Design at the University of
Applied Sciences in Mainz specially designed binoculars for it with a view of the Rhine
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landscape, which is suddenly populated by Dalí’s unique creatures – elephants, tigers,
fish, bees. By introducing this new technology, the lookout of the Richard Meier Building thus
provides the opportunity to transfer Dalí’s multimedia ambitions into our present and to
unite them with his two-dimensional painterly work.
Catalogue
Along with the exhibition a richly illustrated catalogue with essays by Dawn Ades, Astrid von
Asten, Karl Böhmer, Oliver Kornhoff, Heinz Joachim Kummer and Sarah-Lena Schuster will
be published by StrzeleckiBooks, Cologne (65 Euro).
Number of art works and media
By Salvador Dalí: 12 paintings, 2 assemblages, 2 drawings, 42 graphics, 4 films, 1 opera
and 1 lip sofa. 2 multimedia applications with motifs by Dalí (360° video and observation
binoculars with an augmented reality application). On the reception of Dalí: 100
photographs, 50 objects, 100 magazines.
By Hans Arp: 45 works (oil paintings, sculptures, 1 tapestry, reliefs, paper works)
Lenders to the exhibition:
Chanel Collection, Paris
Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Heinz Joachim Kummer-Stiftung, Cologne
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Kunstmuseum Bonn / Prof. Dr. med. Wilfried und Gisela Fitting Stiftung
LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Omer Tiroche Gallery, London
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Private collection, Barcelona
Private collection, Bonn
Private collection, Königswinter
Private collection, The Netherlands
Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin / Rolandswerth
Tate, London
West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, Chichester
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Thank you to the partners and sponsors of the exhibition:
Partners
Sponsors
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General Information
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Hans-Arp-Allee 1
53424 Remagen
Tel. +49(0) 22 28 92 55-0
Fax. +49(0) 22 28 94 25 21
info@arpmuseum.org
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Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays 11.00 – 18.00
Admission:
Adults (all exhibitions) 11 Euro, concessions 9 Euro
Groups from 10 persons: 9 Euro per person
The complete programme: www.arpmuseum.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/arpmuseumbahnhofrolandseck Twitter (#arpmuseum) Instagram (#arpmuseum) PRESS MATERIAL on the homepage of the Arp Museum at:
http://arpmuseum.org/museum/ueber-uns/presse.html
The complete press kit including press photos is also available digitally and in high
resolution on our enclosed USB card.
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Lobster Telephone | Salvador Dalí | 1938 |
West Dean College of Arts and Conservation
© Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres /
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
The Dream of Venus | Salvador Dalí | 1939 | Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres /
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Metamorphosis of Narcissus Salvador Dalí | 1937 | Tate, London © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres /
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second before Awakening | Salvador Dalí | 1944 | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres /
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Press photos of the exhibition
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Little Sphinx | Hans Arp | 1942 | Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Torso and Navels | Hans Arp | 1924/1963
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
The Spectral Cow | Salvador Dalí | 1928 | The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida) © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres/ VG
Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Leaf of a Woman | Hans Arp | 1935 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Loan by Prof. Dr. med. Wilfried und Gisela Fitting Stiftung © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
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Hans Arp with Navel Monocle
Unknown photographer | 1926
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Beethoven’s Head, Salvador Dalí, 1973
© Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres/
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
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Installation views
Cabinet: The Dream of Venus | Salvador Dalí | 1939 | Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 Photo: Helmut Reinelt In the foreground: sculptures by Hans Arp and Salvador Dalí
Magazine covers with Salvador Dalí Heinz Joachim Kummer Stiftung Photo: Helmut Reinelt
Perfume flacons, illustrations and design Objects by Salvador Dalí Heinz Joachim Kummer Stiftung Photo: Helmut Reinelt
Entrance to the cinema (Design inspired by »Studio 28« in Paris), Photo: Helmut Reinelt Programme: »Un Chien Andalou«, 1929 Dream sequence of Hitchcocks »Spellbound«, 1945 »Destino (Walt Disney)«, 1945/2003 »L’âge d’or«, 1930
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Salvador Dalí in photos by Philippe Halsman Heinz Joachim Kummer Stiftung Photo: Helmut Reinelt
Centre: Inaugural Gooseflesh Salvador Dalí | 1928, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Figueres © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 Photo: Helmut Reinelt With works by Hans Arp
Beethoven’s Head | Salvador Dalí | 1973 © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 Photo: Helmut Reinelt
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Exhibition overview 2020/2021
until 1 June 2020 Kunstkammer Rau
The Four Elements
Pavilion
Theme year 2020: »Totally Surreal«
16 Feb to 16 Aug 2020 Salvador Dalí and Hans Arp.
The Birth of Memory
New Building, upper floor and
Bahnhof / Station building
16 Feb to 16 Aug 2020 Jonas Burgert.
Sinn frisst
New Building, ground floor
21 June 2020 to 10 Jan 2021 Kunstkammer Rau:
Dreams and Visions
Pavilion
13 Sept 2020 to 6 June 2021 Arp Collection 2020
New Building, upper floor
13 Sept 2020 to 24 Jan 2021 Antonius Höckelmann.
All in All
New Building, ground floor
4 Oct 2020 to 14 Mar 2021 Luxury and Glamour.
Scholars of the Künstlerhaus Schloss
Balmoral and the State of Rhineland-
Palatinate 2019/20
Bahnhof / Station building
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Kunstkammer Rau. The Four Elements
until 1 June 2020
Johann Martin von Rohden, (1778–1868), Die Kaskade von Tivoli (the cascade of Tivoli), 1825 © Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck / Sammlung Rau für UNICEF
The show embarks on a search for traces from the Middle Ages to the present based on 42 paintings and sculptures from the Rau Collection for UNICEF, which enter into an exciting dialogue with 20 award-winning journalistic photographs from the UNICEF »Photo of the Year« competition.
The world seems to be intact in the sky pictures of the Middle Ages, exuberant the wealth of treasures of earth and water in the baroque still lifes, and the power of the elements becomes palpable in the descending water mass of the Cascade at Tivoli by the romantic
Johann Martin von Rohden. In contrast and entirely committed to the moment, the Impressionists’ vast surfaces of sky and water are glistening in the light. But Monet’s flood image already heralds the first signs of climate change. However, in the photographs that depict our current use of the precious resources of water, earth and air, the problem becomes obvious. The balance between macrocosm and microcosm, between humankind and environment that has been praised since ancient times, is at risk of being tipped. What is endangered is what keeps us and the world together: the four elements.
Jonas Burgert. Sinn frisst 16 Feb to 16 Aug 2020
Jonas Burgert, Sinn frisst, 2019 © Jonas Burgert, Foto: Lepkowski Studios
Burgert’s unique paintings are representational, richly detailed and hardly surpassable in perfection. His wide palette of colours is captivating, ranging from dark and muted to bright and shining, and is applied in free gestures or exactly placed. His often stage-like scenarios and interiors oscillate between the past, the present and the future. Contemporary social references are combined with classical motifs from art history. Archaic, mythological and zeitgeisty human figures encounter each other. They populate the canvases and are often accompanied by animals. Jonas Burgert makes use of classical dramaturgical means, but his pictures elude
clear interpretation and legibility. The carefully composed universe enthrals us – it alarms and disturbs, but at the same time it is beautiful and melancholy. In parts it seems threatening, apocalyptic and surreal. At its core one finds human existence with all its abysses, desires and fears.
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Kunstkammer Rau. Dreams and Visions 21 June 2020 to 10 Jan 2021
José de Ribera, Saint Jerome, 1636, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck / Rau Collection for UNICEF © Foto: Mick Vincenz
The exhibition is part of the surreal worlds that occupy the entire Arp Museum in 2020. Since the art of the old masters has always been a source of inspiration for Salvador Dalí, the Kunstkammer Rau takes up the visionary red thread in the Middle Ages and pursues the theme right up to the modern age. The great treasures of the Rau Collection for UNICEF are complemented by loans from major international museums and private collections. Some 60 paintings, sculptures and manuscripts are proclaiming dreams, apparitions, revelations, end times and are depicting
angels in conversation with saints, sibyls and prophets. Visions are part of many world religions. The Bible, the Talmud and the Koran testify to the divine revelations of the prophets. Some of them prophesied apocalyptic end times like that of John. In a nightmarish way others even evoked hell on earth. The exhibition illustrates these fantastic dream worlds with a wealth of examples ranging from the anonymous medieval Master of the Life of Mary, Hieronymus Bosch and Jusepe de Ribera, to the large-scale bloody demons of Peter Gilles and the expressive visions of Antonius Höckelmann in modern times. The Arp Collection 2020 13 Sept 2020 to 6 June 2021
Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Ascona, 1925 © Archiv Fondation Arp, Clamart, Photographer: unknown, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
The presentation of the collection once again allows us to experience the many-faceted works of our museum’s two patrons, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, who today are regarded as forerunners of the two essential tendencies of modernism. It is a wonderful piece of luck that we can unite the two pioneers of both the geometric and the organic abstraction under one roof, which is probably without
equal in the world, and this gives us the opportunity to invite visitors on an exciting journey of exploration. This is because aside from the joint works numerous other pieces also reflect an astonishingly close exploration of the same motifs or overriding principles, such as the empty space (negative space). Selected dialogues reveal that the often contrary visual language does not represent any kind of limitation for the artist couple, but rather enriches their respective individual creative process.
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Antonius Höckelmann. All in All 13 Sept 2020 to 24 Jan 2021
Antonius Höckelmann, Golfer on nude, bird and flowers, 1993,
Privatsammlung © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
Antonius Höckelmann (b. 1937 in Oelde – d. 2000 in Cologne) worked as a resident artist at the Künstlerbahnhof Rolandseck in the early 1970s. It is therefore a great pleasure to be able to present his expressive, colourful works at the Arp Museum. In his paintings and drawings, freely created and figurative forms are woven into an impenetrable whole. The amorphous, imaginative sculptures and reliefs spread into the space and impress with their intensity. In the dynamic play of lines and colours, representations of women, sexuality, animals such as horses, fantasy creatures and wild plants take shape. With this exhibition on Antonius Höckelmann the
work of a sculptor and painter who had a decisive influence on the Rhenish art scene is paid tribute to. He was highly appreciated by prominent fellow artists such as Markus Lüpertz and Georg Baselitz. We owe the Höckelmann works presented in the exhibition not only to a wide variety of lenders but also to the generous donation from the Mronz Collection Cologne. In the future it will enrich the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck with an extensive collection of works by this hitherto underestimated German artist. The exhibition is realised in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
Luxury and Glamour. Scholars of the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and the State of
Rhineland-Palatinate 2019/20
4 Oct 2020 to 14 Mar 2021
Sarah Ama Duah, Lucid dreams_white, 2015 © 2015 Sarah Ama Duah
The mutual enrichment of fine arts, fashion and jewellery has a
centuries-old tradition. In the course of the democratization and
popularization of fashion and jewellery, not only the boundaries
between commercialism and artistic practice have become more
fluid, but also those between the social systems in which they are
embedded. Based on the year’s theme »Luxury and Glamour.
Artistic Points of View in Fashion and Jewellery«, which was
proposed for the Balmoral scholarships 2019/20, the exhibition
illuminates the aesthetic, material, performative, social and cultural
implications of fashion and jewellery. The focus is on the
examination of how they establish identity, and on fashion and
jewellery as expressions of social power and gender relations.
Exhibiting artists: Nicole Ahland, Eunmi Chun, Alexandra Deutsch, Sarah Ama Duah, Ekachai
Eksaroj, Vera Gulikers, Anna Herrgott, Jaekyung Jung, Aneta Kajzer, Judith Leinen, Rut Blees
Luxemburg, Anna Lucia Nissen, Lydia Nüüd, Thomas Perrin, Elif Saydam, Lukas Schmenger